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barren STATES .ATENT FFICE@ JOHN MONAY RIMINGTON, OF 4 PIOTON PLACE, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, COUNTY OF NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND.

' WRITING OR BLOTTING PAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,209, dated December 28, 1886.

Application filed June 15, 1885. Serial No. 168,693. (Model.)

To au whom t may concern-.-

Be it known that I, JOHN MON AY RIMING- roN, of 4 Picton Place, N ewcastle-on-Tyne, England, merchant, a subject of the Queen of 5 Great Britain, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Manufacture of Writing or Blotting Pads, of ywhich the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. 1o This invention consists in a novel blottingpad, hereinafter described and claimed.

The center part I build up out of a number of leaves of blotting-paper to a thickness of three-eighths of an inch, more or less. This center part occupies the greater portion of the complete pad, and would be about fourteen inches long by twelve inches wide (more or less blot ting part I fix a number of leaves of writ- .;o ing-paper corresponding in thickness to the number of leaves of blotting-paper. These leaves can be ruled or left plain. At the top of each leaf .I print the word Engagements or other similar significant term. On the left- -2 5 hand side of the central blotting part I fix a number of leaves of writingspaper, forming a complete diary, commencing 1st of January and terminating the 31st of December. Y This diary I provide with a stiff cover of card-board 3o or other suitable substance. This cover can be utilized for advertising purposes without in any way interfering with the daily useof the said diary. On the left-hand side of central blotting part, immediately over the diary, I 35 fix a number of leaves forming date-slips, each leaf being dated for one week. "The person using the blottcr can always tell the day of the month bysimply drawinga pen or pencil across each day as it passes and tearing off the slips 4o or leaf at the end of the week. I form a recess at the top edge of central blotting part, also at the top edge of engagement-slip and dateslip. This recess is to facilitate the removal of the leaves by the finger. The accompanying drawings will more fully explain my invention.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views. K.

Figure l is a view of the complete pad with 5o diary closed. Fig. 2 is a view of the complete pad with diary open. l Fig. 3 is a view of the On the right-hand side of the center complete pad, showing the diary open and one of the leaves of blotting-paper in the diary partly turned over, also one of the blotting paper leaves of central blottingpad loosened ready to remove or tear off, also one of the engagementslips partly removed. Fig. 4 is a plan of Fig. 3 in the direction ofthe arrow.

A, Figs. i, 2, 3, 4, is the @entrai blotting part.

B, Figs. l, 2, 3, 4, are the engagement-slips.

O, Figs. 1, 2,3, 4, areloops to receive a pencil.

D is asuitable pencil passed into the loops C.

E, Fig. l, represents the Vdiary closed.

F, Figs. 2, 3, 4, represents the diary open.

G, Figs. 3 and 4, represents-one of the leaves of blotting-paper in the diary partly turned over, such leaf being interposed between the leaves F of the diary.

H, Figs. 3, 4, represents one of the leaves of the central blotting-pad loosened ready to remove or tear off.

J, Figs. 3, 4, represents one of the engagement-slips partly removed ready to tear off.

The top part, K, of each sheet of the central blotting-pad can be used for advertising purposes in a similar manner to the stiff cover of diary. The leaves of the diary are not intended to be ripped out; but when the said diary is open ready for use it will be level with the blotting and engagement parts, as clearly vshown at Fig. 3.

L, Fig. 4, represents the back of mill-board or other suitable material, to which is fixed the various parts constituting my improved pa M, Figs. l, 2, 3, 4, represents the recesses formed to conveniently fit the tip of finger when removing the leaves, as hereinbefore described. I can, where desirable, make these recesses parallel; or, where p referred, theycan be made or at the bottom.

I am fully aware that thc making of a blotting-pad formed of several layers of material is not new or original; neither is the making of a diary or the binding of a number of engagement-slips together new or original when done separately; but what I` consider to constitute the originality and novelty of my invcntion is the convenient arrangement of the various parts to form one complete writing or blotting pad.

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O to taper either with the small side at the top 1 Having now fully described the nature of In testimony whereofIhave hereunto signed my invention andthe manner in which the my name in the presence of two subscribing same is to be carried out, I declare that what witnesses. I claim is n 5 As an article of manufacture, a blotting-pad J MCNAY RIMINGTON.

consisting of a card-board or similar backing, a central body of blotting-paper, an attached Witnesses: Y series of superposed sheets of writing-paper, JOHN TAYLOR, and an attached diary, substantially as de- CHARLES PROOTER MOWBRAY.

1o scribed. 

